Re: 2.5.70 - Blank Screen with VESA VGA Framebuffer

[Parag Warudkar <warudkar@vsnl.net>]

  Sorry - Last time I sent the message encoded/html which appeared garbled
on the list.. Thanx to Jochen Roth for pointing it out.
  Original Message...>

  Yeah, exact same card. I will try the LCD patch, does X work with it?
  For me the reason for using FB is X, it wont work otherwise. Why? I don't
know..
  Will take this up with X-Pert..!

  P
  -----Original Message----- 
  From: Nicolas Souchu [mailto:nsouch@free.fr]
  Sent: Sat 6/14/2003 04:55
  To: Parag Warudkar
  Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven; James Simmons; Linux Frame Buffer Device
Development
  Subject: Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] 2.5.70 - Blank Screen with VESA VGA
Framebuffer


  On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 02:06:56PM +0530, Parag Warudkar wrote:
  > No. Atyfb hasn't worked for me in 2.4.20. If I use video=atyfb, I get a
  > corrupted white screen which is beyond my capabilities to describe!! :)

  My experience is almost the same with the following board:

  01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage Mobility P/M
AGP 2x
  +(rev 64) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
          Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc Rage Mobility P/M AGP 2x
          Flags: bus master, stepping, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 9
          Memory at e4000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
          I/O ports at c000 [size=256]
          Memory at e6000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
          Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] [size=128K]
          Capabilities: [50] AGP version 1.0
          Capabilities: [5c] Power Management version 1

  The PCI id is Ox4d4c, and you?

  e.g. I got the famous encrypted white screen with at least 2.4.9 but
  now with 2.5.69 + LCD patch posted recently, it's much better. I get
  half the screen duplicated verticaly but with correct resolution.

  I guess this is a modesetting problem?

  > The graphics chip is ATI RAGE Mobility M1(LT) AGP2X - a MACH64 Derivate
  > with 8Mb RAM..  For X, 3D acceleration (DRI, direct rendering) works
  > with a Mach64 branch of XFree86.
  > (http://dri.sourceforge.net/snapshots/bleeding-edge/mach64*-*)

  You should try the 2.5.69+patch...

  Note that I had to disable everything else but the ATY driver (VESA,
VGA16,
  framebuffer virtual).

  Nicholas

  --
  Nicholas Souchu - nsouch@free.fr - nsouch@FreeBSD.org





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